NEWS ABOUT EVOLUTION and CREATION SCIENCE DURING 2004

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The most imporant development during 2004:

2004-NOV-08: GA: Cobb County school district adopts disclaimer
stickers: The Cobb County School District in Georgia adopted
a policy requiring that any of its school biology textbooks which
mention evolution contain a sticker reading: "This textbook contains
material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the
origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open
mind, studied carefully and critically considered." Jeffrey Selman,
a former resident of New York state who has a 10 year old son in the
Cobb school system initiated a lawsuit: Selman v. Cobb County School
District, seeking to have the stickers removed. Attorney for the
school district, Linwood Gunn, testified in U.S. District Court
that the sticker was meant to "encourage critical thinking."
He said that it did not imply that evolution was wrong; he added that it
was silly to consider the stickers a promotion of religion. ACLU lawyer
Margaret F. Garrett told U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper that
"the disclaimer’s wording is actually an endorsement of religion and
it makes evolution seem unsound and unsupported." Attorney and
counsel for the parents against the sticker, Michael Manley said: "Evolution
is the underpinning of all life sciences. Stating that evolution is only
a theory is a covert way of prompting students to discuss the existence
of God and to proselytize religious theories of the origins of humankind."
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